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Robert Porter matriculated pensioner from Pembroke College at
Cambridge University, at Easter 1563. He received a B.A. degree in
1566-7, an M.A. from Trinity College in 1570, and a B.D. in 1577. He
was ordained a deacon in the diocese of Ely, 21 September 1567, and as
a priest in the diocese of Lincoln, 8 May 1569. He was rector of
Langham, Essex, 1571-2, and Vicar of Standon, Hertfordshire, 1572-5,
and he served as rector of the parish Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire,
where he lived from 1571 until his death in 1624.